03098nam 2200697Ia 450 991096319600332120251116175546.01-134-74154-51-134-74155-30-429-23071-00-203-38021-51-280-07242-310.4324/9780203380215 (CKB)1000000000250045(EBL)169394(OCoLC)53161490(SSID)ssj0000296760(PQKBManifestationID)11245010(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000296760(PQKBWorkID)10327150(PQKB)11169724(MiAaPQ)EBC169394(Au-PeEL)EBL169394(CaPaEBR)ebr10100350(CaONFJC)MIL7242(EXLCZ)99100000000025004520020918d2003 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrFoundations of entrepreneurship and economic development /David A. Harper1st ed.London ;New York Routledge20031 online resource (289 p.)Foundations of the market economyDescription based upon print version of record.0-415-45920-6 0-203-38870-4 0-415-15342-5 Includes bibliographical references (p. [241]-267) and index.Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of illustrations; Preface; Introduction; The theory of entrepreneurial discovery; Psychological determinants of entrepreneurial alertness; Institutions I: Rule of law, property and contract; Institutions II: Money, political and legal decentralisation and economic freedom; Culture and alertness; The market-process approach to public policy; Empirical testing and conceptual development; Concluding remarks; Notes; Bibliography; IndexThis well-written book is the first to deal with entrepreneurship in all its aspects. It considers the economic, psychological, political, legal and cultural dimensions of entrepreneurship from a market-process perspective. David A Harper has produced a volume that analyses why some people are quicker than others in discovering profit opportunities. Importantly, the book also covers the issue of how cultural value systems orient entrepreneurial vision and, in contrast to conventional wisdom, the book argues that individualist cultural values are not categorically superior to group oriented valFoundations of the market economy series.EntrepreneurshipNew business enterprisesEconomic developmentEntrepreneurship.New business enterprises.Economic development.338.04338/.04Harper David A42291MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910963196003321Foundations of entrepreneurship and economic development4498927UNINA